**To: Commissar of Food Supply comrade Bryukhanov, copy to comrade Smolyaninov**

It is necessary to accelerate the dispatch of sacks for the Ukrainian Commissariat of Food Supply, comrade Vladimirov, as well as the dispatch of goods for Ukraine's goods-exchange fund. Regarding your subsequent directives, I request that you keep me informed*. Report to me today and report daily in formal written fashion precisely what is actually being done. Personal responsibility of Bryukhanov. Appoint responsible people for detailed measures.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense Lenin

*Text supplemented and signed by V. I. Lenin

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

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